Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
This episode is once again horror themed episode where I am joined again by Jonny Long, a visual artist and filmmaker, to discuss and dissect possibly one of the queerest horrors ever, Nightmare on Elm Street2: Freddy Revenge.
The film is the second installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and features antagonistic figurehead Freddy Kruger, a malevolent spirit of a child killer who usually plagues and kills people in their dream. His signature burnt face, red and green stripe jumper and trademark metal-clawed, brown leather glove has become the symbol for 80s horror.
A film very characteristic of this golden decade horror, but not just in its horror but also in the setting of the high school and the subsequent stereotypical high-school dynamics, depicting teenagers as high highly sexualized. Yet simultaneously inadvertently or maybe not so inadvertently as we will discover, Freddy’s Revenge is a very gay film, with a copious examples of examples not so subtle subtext, touching upon anxieties present in the time of release in 1985 in the backdrop of the AIDS crisis and a Republican conservative America
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